"I'd never lie to you! Never! Just elect me, and you'll see!"
Jellyfishes.
John Boner (or his staffers) had little canned replies ready for these newbies to repeat when questioned why they lied and voted for Boehner anyway.
“If they didn’t vote for Boehner, then they might as well have voted for Nancy Pelosi.”
That "R" after his name is for rat-fink.
Stop signing these pledges. It is dumb thing to do. You have no idea what is reality until you are in office. It is easy to say what you think you would do until you are hit in the head with reality.
In the words of Robert KKK Byrd..
Next cycle..
He’s Gone GONE gone.
“former Chairman of the Maryland GOP “
No really. We can reform the GOP. Besides, they are DIFFERENT at the state level. We just need to keep our powder dry because this is the wrong fight at the wrong time!
People stupid enough to vote GOP into power deserve everything befalling them. There is nothing, no way this party can possibly make their intent any clearer.
Another one term congressman.
Wow! How easily you abandon Freshmen.
You have no idea why he broke his pledge .. so hyper-ventilating and calling him names seems to be the only solution.
Really ..??
He did explain why he didn’t join the rebellion .. but evidently nobody has paid attention. Typical.
His comment made sense to me .. “the rebellion” was not organized (which was true) .. and many of the people not wanting to vote for Boehner .. were NOT PEOPLE HE KNEW .. AND THEREFORE, HE WAS NOT SURE HE COULD TRUST THEM. If you don’t know the persons you’re supposed to be voting with .. they can change their vote at the last minute, and you can be left holding the bag; isolated and bleeding in the corner.
That is no way to start your time in the House.
Besides, the public has been calling and calling and driving the GOPe nuts. Great! So, it seems the two men who were removed from their previous assignments .. are going to be re-considered.
It would be a better use of your time and energy to just call Boehner’s phone: 202-225-0600 .. and let his office know that we’re not happy about his treatment of new representatives .. and he better turn off the “revenge” button before the public gets really mad.
His constituents need to burn up his phone lines and tell him you will NOT forget this and that he will be “Primaried” and “Cantorized” in 2016. Make life hell for him. I publicly excoriated my newly elected Congressman, Brian Babin (R-TX) on Twitter.
"I'd never lie to you! Never! Just elect me, and you'll see!"
Another fraud is exposed.
Bad move including weasel words in the pledge, because it gives politicians an easy way to back out and say they still honored the pledge.
IF the Tea Party was active in getting Mooney elected they should start a letter writing campaign to him, a few letters everyday from different people informing him they will not forget his treason, a few letters everyday a hundred every week until he just drops the next election cycle, that should serve as a clear message to wannabe’s what is expected.
This should be done for every conservative who voted to keep Boehner and the status quo, my congressional representative is a democrat, but I did send a few bucks to Mia Love, I will not let her forget, she said many of the letters of disappointment did not come from her district, yet a whole lot of money came from us she made fools of, my bad I should have known better; mormons have an entirely different agenda and they willingly some unwittingly lie to advance it.
My new Rep. Jody Hice did the same thing! He took over for Paul Broun who voted against Boehner last time and was urging our Congressmen in GA to vote against him this time around. Not ONE GA Congressman voted against Boehner! We are beyond angry! I called Hice’s office after the vote and the poor girl answering the phone sounded like she was going to cry.